Re: [feature/dll-only-windows] A new windows build, comments wanted

[Phillip Lord]

Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org> writes:

> On Sat, Jan 09, 2021 at 07:57:00PM +0000, Phillip Lord wrote:
>> 
>> 3) Currently the "no-deps" version actually includes libXpm. Emacs
>> starts without it, but looks ugly. I would like to no longer special
>> case libXpm and just make the "no-deps" download really include no
>> deps. I think this is reasonable, because this download is now, really
>> special purpose and "with-deps" is the default.
>
> Do you even really need libXpm? We manage without it on NS and Cairo
> builds by using the built-in functions at src/image.c:4671. Perhaps
> that could be extended to Windows as well?

I don't think we do need it in the version with deps. AFAIU, it's just
there as the smallest dependency that can give colour icons.

Phil